Jake on TIFF: 'The exciting part right now is everybody being excited about the different movies'

Thanks again to IHJ, here are more pictures from yesterday of Jake down North Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills. I have two things to say. Firstly: How come when Jake opens his car door umpteen newspapers don't blow out or bottles of water roll out? Secondly: Jake, please teach me how to parallel park (but not in the scarey way that Paul Newman taught you how to avoid walls when heading straight for them).



The news that Jake Gyllenhaal has been heralded as Britain's Mr Right is spreading around the world. Thanks to Tammy, here is a link to a paper from Sweden, which, I think, is agreeing that Jake is the perfect man. And here is an Australian site that has no doubt that Jake is the ideal mate, while suggesting that Australian men may have difficulty living up to some of these conditions. Heath, obviously, would have no trouble at all.


With pictures of Jake out there in Los Angeles, surrounded by palm trees down a wide avenue (even though he's dressed as though he's about to go scaling pine trees at the fringes of the Arctic Circle), I'm reminded, not only of the Hawaiian post but also of an interview that Jake recorded for Acess Hollywood in Toronto in October. I've seen some of this interview before but, as is the delight with Jake interviews, more bits turn up later on. Here you can listen and watch Jake comparing the desert of Morocco to LA. In contrast to the Jarhead desert, the weather in Morocco was, Jake says, 'amazing, it was... almost exactly like LA, and so it was sort of like... LA! In a way!'




Awards season, albeit a rather strange and muted awards season, is upon us - we are only days away from the announcement of the nominations for the Oscars (deep breaths) - and in this interview Jake was asked what he thought of TIFF as a festival and as a launch pad for the silly season. 'You have to publicise a movie, you have to get everybody together, including the press, the people who want to see the movie, the people in the movie and the people who've made the movie. So I think just in general festivals are wonderful places to do that. Toronto in particular has become a hub, I think. A lot of movies come that eventually make their way to be recognised in the award season. But I don't think that's how it starts here. I think, ultimately, it's just a place where really wonderful people come to enjoy really great movies.'


'The exciting part right now is everybody being excited about the different movies coming out. I was sitting at a table last night with people who were just saying 'I'm so excited to see Jesse James and I'm so excited to see Atonement, I'm so...' And that's, I think, the wonderful part about it before it gets into the hoopla and, I guess you could kind of say, you know, the muckiness of all the awards and that's the really wonderful part.'



I love to hear Jake say certain words and 'hoopla' is one of them, 'muckiness' isn't bad either. I trawled a London newsagents at lunchtime today and I saw something in all the years I've followed Jake I never thought I would see: Jake's name in big bold red letters across the rags. This is in the UK where Jake's name is relatively little known but now is becoming well known. So, it seems to me that now, more than ever, this is the time to focus on Jake's words and the excitment that he has had making his films and we have had sharing them with him. Cheers, Jake!


Includes pictures from IHJ.